Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

Freedom is such a gift.

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Whatever you think, that you will be.